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W. H. MARSHALL.

GAMB.

Patented Jun-e 3, 1890.

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l WILLIAM-HENRY MARSHALL, OF CHELSEA, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HERBERT E. STREETER.

GAME.

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 429,312, dated June 3, 1890.

Application tiled August l5, 1889. Serial No. 320,816. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM HENRY MAR- SHALL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chelsea, in the county of Suffolk vand State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Garne-Boards or Puzzles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification in explaining its nature.

The invention relates to a game-board or puzzle, comprising a box or other equivalent or suitable device having a space inclosed by a wall, and having at one or more points an opening through said wall into an inclosed chamber or space, and a ball, preferably of light material-such as pith or cork, 'paperpulp, or thin glass-contained within said Wall and adapted to be forced by the breath `through the hole thereof into the inclosed chamber, the game being to blow the ball through the hole in the wall. This cannot be easily accomplished because the air in the p confined space beyond the wall acts as an air-cushion or to return or prevent the ball from entering the hole except under very favorable circumstances.

Of course the invention may be put into a great many different forms, and in the drawings I have shown but one of them.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a view in perspective of the box or apparatus with which the game is played. Fig. 2 is a View of the box With the upper plate forming the top of the inclosed chamber removed. Fig. 3 is a View of said plate. Fig. 4 is a view of the box and its cover reduced in size, the corner of the cover of the box being removed.

A is the box. a is the bottom of the box a', the wall thereof; a2, the inclosed chamber or space.

B is the ball.

The inclosed chamber or space is repre-- lthrough which it escapes.

ive, as such is not the case.

vides a cheap construction, and one which allows the ball, after it has been blown into the inclosed cham-ber, by tipping the box to be easily guided to the entrance or hole I prefer on some accounts that the front edges of the pieces C C be curved, as represented,.as by so doing the ball is directed toward the opening or hole, and it is apparently more easy to blow the ball through the hole; but this is delus- The box has a cover F.

In use the ball is placed anywhere in the open inclosed space, and is then blown by the breath toward the recess or hole, the object ofthe effort being to cause the ball to be blown through the recess or hole into the chamber beyond. This, however, cannot read- Y ily bedone, because of. the resistance of the air in said chamber, especially while the breathing or blowing of air against the ball continues, the resistance and return-current of the air serving to prevent the ball from readily entering the chamber through said hole, although the ball may be at the very entrance to the chamber.

It is obvious that the invention may be represented in many different forms, and that the box may be of pasteboard, wood, metal, or any other suitable material.

It is of course apparent that the wall about the board or base a may be dispensed with without departing from the spirit of the invention.

tight, the said board or support extending in front of said entrance and forming a table or support for a light ball, and the said `ball by which the game is played by being moved or blown toward and through said opening into said inelosed chamber, substantially as trance, and a ball capable of being blown into described. said chamber through said ent1anee,snbstan- 2. `In a game-board or puzzle of the chartially as described. acter specified, the inelosed chamber CL2, hav- VILLIAM HENRY MARSHALL. 5 ing the hole or entrance D thereto, otherwise In presence ofpraoteally air-tight, with the inclined or F. F. RAYMOND, 2d,

curved outer Wall 0n each side of said en- J. T. BALL. 

